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Your Daily Elephant

Posted on by Cheryl Merrill

A continuing series of elephant photographs.  Sumo wrestling, elephant style.  A young bull, testing his strength against an older male, gets pushed around.  Savuti area, Chobe National Park, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Cheryl Merrill’s essays have been published in Fourth Genre, Pilgrimage, Brevity, Seems, South Loop Review, Ghoti, Alaska Quarterly Review, Adventum and Isotope. “Singing Like Yma Sumac” was selected for the Best of Brevity 2005 and Creative Nonfiction #27. It was also included in the anthology Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition, 10th Edition. Another essay, “Trunk,” was chosen for Special Mention in Pushcart 2008. She is currently working on a book about elephants: Larger than Life: Living in the Shadows of Elephants.

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